Wednesday 9 October 2024

59.13-Real-life Lara Croft




The last time on the Smole, the final 7 had to play snakes and ladders and race to the top to get an exemption. Rudy succeeded and he brought in 20 points along with Sienna, bringing the pot up to 240/480 points. The next execution ceremony continued the trend of a man leaving because Zhang was executed. Will Rudy be the next one to leave or is he the Mole?

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Egypt is full of secrets and so is the Smole. The contestants will get to be tomb raiders in their next mission. They will visit Desert's End and raid the crypt. There are six chests to be found; one per contestant. Each contestant can find and open one chest. 


In each chest contains two secrets: one of which is true and one of which is false. If they take the correct secret with them, they can earn an exemption. Each contestant who is able to keep their secret within the chest by the end of 30 minutes will earn 20 points. The contestants may open their own chest but this will invalidate any points or exemptions they can earn from that chest.


Ramona: "I feel like a real-life Lara Croft."


Sheila: "This isn't what I signed up for."


Mary: "Hmm..."


Jordana: "Guys wait for me! Hehe! There are no railings on these steps!"


Jordana: "AAAH!"
Rudy: "Huh? Oh sorry Jordana!"


Ramona: "Ew. This is so creepy and smelly. I am not opening this."


Rudy: "Girls, a little help?"
Jordana: "I will literally die if I touch that axe knowing myself. Hehe."


Sienna: "There's a door here but it's locked. There must be a way to unlock it."


Mary: "This statue is loose at the base. It's lighter than it looks."


Ramona: "Was that always there?"


Ramona: "What if I step on it?"


Jordana: "Why is there a walkie-talkie here?"


Sheila: "Ow, my arms are so sore."


Sheila: "I heard a click! I don't think anyone else did."


Sheila: "What does that say? The blood of the executed?"


Sheila: "Ee! Is that...blood? And skeletons?"


Ramona: "I have no idea what that did."
Mary: "Stop wasting time."


Jordana: "Eugh!"


Jordana: "AAAH! HELP!"


Ramona: "Jordana!"


Sheila: "The door locked! Can anyone hear me? Hello?"


Sienna: "The path is clear."


Sienna: "Hmm...nothing suspicious here. I wonder if the hieroglyphs are a clue."


Rudy: "A key."


Rudy: "That will come in handy."


Rudy: "Now where did Sienna go?"


Sienna: "Another locked door."


Rudy: "Sienna! Why are you staring at a wall?"
Sienna: "I'm trying to figure out if there's a riddle or clue to unlock the door."


Rudy: "I...may have a key. But I want to strike a deal first. If we stumble upon my chest, we leave it. Unless we also find yours. Then we tell each other our secrets and we both get an exemption."
Sienna: "Deal."


Rudy: "Damn it. There's no key hole. My key doesn't fit."


Sienna: "Let's try the torches."


Ramona: "I pull, you push, okay? One...two...three..."


Jordana: "Thanks for saving me hehe."
Mary: "Next time do us a favour and don't touch anything."


Sheila: "Calm down. There must be a way out..."


Sheila: "And maybe that only way is down."


Jordana: "Hello? Can anyone hear us?"


Ramona: "Uggghhh!"


Rudy: "Aha! There's a button behind this one!"


Rudy: "Outta my way!"


Sienna: "Yes!"
Rudy: "That's Mary's! Outta my way!"


Rudy: "AUGH!"


Sienna: "Rooney!"


Sienna: "No wonder we were given fire extinguishers. Cover your face."


Ramona: "I'm tired out and this did nothing."


Ramona: "Do I really need to open the sarcophagus?"


Ramona: "Here goes nothing. Please forgive me."


Sheila: "HOUGH!"


Sheila: "I'm so disgusted. Shit, I need a key to unlock the door."


Mary: "There's a hidden path. I knew it."


Ramona: "Guys! Mary found another path!"


Rudy: "Don't stick your hand into that!"
Sienna: "I sprayed fire retardant on my hand. Hmm...there's some ancient mechanism here. But I don't understand."
Rudy: "So no off switch?"


Rudy: "How are we going to get across?"


Sienna: "I'm skipping this one. You go ahead and risk it if you want but I'm going to go for an easier one."

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Sienna: "I noticed some tiles looked burnt but I wasn't going to tell Rooney that and let him steal the exemption from me yet again. I'm not letting an exemption slip by me again. I had hoped he would give up too and leave the room."

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Ramona: "There's Rooney's secret. But it needs a heart keystone."
Jordana: "Who will get to open his secret? Hehe."
Mary: "Whoever finds the heart."


Sienna: "A new panel. That must do something."


Ramona: "I hope nobody broke the heart."


Jordana: "Maybe something is hidden inside here hehe."



Mary: "What? A secret door."


Mary: "Jordana's secret."


Jordana: "What?"

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There is one small snag: the secrets are in Arabic script. This is where our second, 22-year-old, PKer comes in.


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Sanaa: "I am so excited to be here! I have been quietly observing the contestants since China and I think I know who it is. That is how I managed to get in to this season."

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The contestants can communicate with Sanaa the crypt-keeper. They are allowed to take one secret and ask for a translation. However, at the end, Sanaa can try and protect the secrets by guessing if the secret removed was true or false. If she succeeds, that secret is reclaimed and the contestant who stole it loses the exemption.


At the end, Sanaa can trade exemptions collected to enter the Mole's crypt and find the Mole's secret...at a price of 3 exemptions.


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Ramona: "Hey the door's unlocked. How did I not see this before?"
Sienna: "Door? Oh!"


Sienna: "Ramona, did you lock the door? Ramona? I can't hear her."


Rudy: "This feels hot."


Rudy: "There must be a hidden trap here too."


Mary: "I need to turn this up by 2 frequencies...hello, can anyone hear me?"


Sanaa: "This is Sanaa. Who am I speaking to?"
Mary: "Mary Shelby. Are you able to help translate an Arabic text?"
Sanaa: "Of course."


Mary: "Thank god for the Simlish transliteration. Listen carefully. Jurdana tueani min kasr fi farwat alraas."
Sanaa: "That means Jordana suffers from a scalp fracture."


Jordana: "I found the heart!"


Mary: "Thank you. That should be the wrong secret or she would have mentioned it to me. I'll take the other one."

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Mary: "We only realised that Sanaa was the next PKer after we were done with the mission. She was in plain sight the whole time. Although Zhang was clearly not going to be the Mole, there is a chance that Sanaa might be."

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Sienna: "You're done?"
Mary: "Yes. Good luck."


Rudy: "تريد ماري قطع علاقة زوجها السابق الجديدة or قامت ماري بنشل رئيسها في عشاء الشركة. Hmm..."


Sheila: "I searched through the bones and there's no key anywhere. Please don't tell me I have to lock-pick using skeleton bones."



Sienna: "This is tiring."


Rudy: "Hey there. Can you translate this for me? Turid mari quate ealaquat zawhija alsabeequeue aljadida."


Sanaa: "Aiyay. Did you mean تريد ماري قطع علاقة زوجها السابق الجديدة?"
Rudy: "Yeah that."
Sanaa: "It means Mary wants to break up with her ex-husband's new relationship."


Rudy: "Hmm, I don't think that's her...but she did say she want to get back together and the other secret is an unknown. I think I'll take this secret with me."


Rudy: "So much for trying to go for an easier one."


Jordana: "Where did Ramona go? Oh well. Hehe!"


Jordana: "It's in Arabic? Oh, there are instructions here in Simlish on what I need to do."


Sanaa: "Who am I speaking to?"
Jordana: "Jordana. Hehe! Are you local?"
Sanaa: "I am. You need me to translate something."
Jordana: "How did you know? Hehe. Please forgive me if I mispronounce hehe. Saraq Rudi min tilmidhih. Hehe."
Sanaa: "It means Rudy stole from his student."


Jordana: "Ooh, did he? He seems like an honest man. I don't know...maybe he did and that's why he left! Hehe. Okay I'll go with this one."


Sienna: "At long last."


Jordana: "Hehe! All the best Sienna!"

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Ramona: "I don't know how long I was trapped in there but you really lose all sense of time. Shortly after Sienna opened the door the time was up. No secret discovered."

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"Good morning contestants. I hope you had quite the adventure. Three of you managed to get the secrets of other contestants, which means 60/120 points have been earned as three of you managed to keep your secrets safe in the grave. But to the first three, you will only get the exemption if you get to read them out loud. Our second PKer managed to sneak into the game last night. She will decide."


"Let us welcome Sanaa Madbouli."
Jordana: "No way! She's the PKer the whole time?"


"Sanaa, in front of you are three secrets. You have to decide which of them are true and which are false. Each true secret you receive will earn you an exemption and if you can get all 3 right, you can trade them to find out the Mole's secret."


Sanaa: "Jordana is a good liar. I think that is true."


Sanaa: "Mary wants to break up with her ex-husband's new relationship. She does not seem like the sort of woman. I will say this is false."


Sanaa: "Rudy stole from his student. From my understanding he is not a teacher so this is also false."


"Sanaa has safeguarded one more secret: Jordana's."
Mary: "I lose my exemption."
"That is correct. Sanaa gets yours."


"Rudy, what secret did you collect?"
Rudy: "Mary's secret is that she wants to break up her ex-husband's relationship. From my understanding at the pool yesterday, I think that is true."
"That is indeed true. Congratulations, you have yourself a third exemption."
Rudy: "Booyeah!"


"Jordana, what secret did you collect?"
Jordana: "I found Rooney's secret. He allegedly stole from a student? I'm not too sure about this hehe."
"That secret is indeed true, so you get an exemption as well. Congratulations."


Jordana, Rudy and Sanaa are exempt, which means a woman will go home next, breaking the streak this season. Who will it be?



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